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'''Sam:''' Sam Salute. That's not [[Flipping the Bird|the gesture with the finger]], is it?
'''Helix:''' No, I mean the one where people put their hand over their wallet.
'''Sam:''' Oh, that one. I'm pretty sure that's a sign of respect.
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{{quote|'''Captain Hollister''': "Rimmer, is this salute ''ever'' going to end?"
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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], a '''Strange Salute''' is simply an idiosyncratic greeting gesture featured in a piece of fiction. While understandably most common in [[Mildly Military]] series, a
Note that this [[Trope]] covers only strictly fictional salutes, saluters and/or ''salutees''. If [[Those Wacky Nazis]] set their right arms straight at a 45-degree-angle above the horizontal (and slightly to the right) to greet [[Adolf Hitler]] in a [[Wartime Cartoon]], it's certainly ''a'' salute - one some might even find ''strange'' - but ''not'' a
For the more general version, see [[Memetic Hand Gesture]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'' and its sequels, Abh uses the Polish-style two-fingers salute, except that in this version, the palm is facing downward.
* The Hige-Hige salute in ''[[Bomberman Jetters]]'' is about as absurd as it can get: one extends both arms, hands folded into fists, to the right, draws a full circle with them in the vertical plane, and finishes by bending one's left leg. [[media:hige-hige-salute.jpg|You should end up with something like this.]]
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** [[Winston Churchill|V for Victory]], eh?
* A couple of these appear in ''[[One Piece]].'' The White Berets of Skypeia make an odd hand gesture on their foreheads. Marines salute palm-inwards. Though, according to Oda, the latter is an actual sailor salute used to avoid showing tar-stained hands to your superiors.
* In ''
* Throughout the entire opening to ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', the protagonist is depicted making a curious one-handed sign: With the back of her hand outward, middle and ring finger held together and the rest apart. Never seen or explained in the actual story. Hint: {{spoiler|Compare with the Vulcan Salute depicted above. Very [[Villain Protagonist|in-character]].}}
* In ''[[Interstella 5555]]'' alien's soliders place closed fist over the heart.
* From ''[[Tsuritama]]'', Akira's crew hold up cards emblazoned with a "D", strike a [[Dragon Ball|Ginyu Force]]-esque pose, and shout "Duck!"
* In the first season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the four Shitennou of the Dark Kingdom salute Queen Beryl by bowing with their right fists clenched over the left breast.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Sometimes, [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] comic books have some variant of American or British salutes. Sometimes they don't. There are a couple of cases where Imperials used something like the Roman salute, which the Nazi one is based on. And in one comic where Luke greets a superior his palm is turned outwards in what really looks like some kind of salute - since it's one panel and we see it from the superior's POV, it's hard to tell.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The Idris in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' have a head-heart-hand salute.
* When Sailor V/Sailor Venus arrives after being summoned by a ritual performed by Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Doug Sangnoir in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel]]'', she gives Sailor Moon (now in her Princess Serenity form) the same bow-with-clenched-fist-over-heart salute that the Shitennou give to Queen Beryl noted above.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', the salute is for a fist to be placed over the heart, accompanied by saying "Never give up, never surrender."
* In the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''[[Duck Soup]]'', the soldiers of Freedonia salute by placing their arm horizontally, with a down-facing open palm, across their chest.
* In the 1984 film version of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four
* In [[The
* In ''[[Monty Python
* The air guitar riff in ''[[Bill
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Moon Child]]'', Sho, Kei and Toshi have a private friendship salute that involves placing their index and middle fingers at the bridge of their noses, sticking their thumbs out (sort of like a gun, but the fingers are more spread) and saluting in an outwards curve.
* In ''The Last Castle'', Robert Redford's character, a three-star general is put into a military prison. When the other inmates begin to respect him, they aren't permitted to salute, so they improvise by waving at him when they pass him. Their intent is clear.
* In the german movie ''[[Die Welle]]'' (The Wave) the salute of the titular student organisation was a sea-wave hand motion.
* In ''Morons from Outer Space'', Griff Rhys Jones guiltily claps a hand over the breast pocket of his stolen uniform to hide the name tag (in case someone realises it's not his) this is mistaken for a salute by visiting politicians who return it, then use it to a colonel, who returns it also.
* In
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' has the traditional greeting/gesture of submission utilized when entering Amazon territory consisting of raising one's arms and crossing one's wrists above one's head, wrists inward. This is, presumably to attest to one's lack of access to weapons. [[Wonder Woman|William Moulton Marston]] might just have [[Freud Was Right|something else to say]] about that, however. Additionally being as most characters we see performing the gesture are female—and considering the orientation of many Amazon warriors...
* ''[[Star Trek]]'', the perennial [[Mildly Military]] [[Space Opera]], of course featured a gazillion of these.
** The best known is probably the [[wikipedia:Vulcan salute|Vulcan salute]] - pictured above - which is also based on a Jewish blessing gesture.
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* ''Camp Cariboo'' did a segment on funny handshakes, from lumberjacks to foot doctors (described as "corny") and farmers ("[[Incredibly Lame Pun|"udderly ridiculous"]]).
* An episode of ''Welcome Freshmen'' had a very long salute done by the new militaristic Hall Monitors that involved using both hands and a full spin, accompanied by drumbeats. Each monitor had to give the full salute every time he was given an order, which gave the offending student time to just walk away without being apprehended.
* The humans of the Pegasus galaxy in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' lean their foreheads against each other. The Jaffa in [[Stargate SG-1]] have a few of these as well.
* In ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' and in ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'', the SPD salute consists of clenching your right hand into a fist over your left shoulder, then drawing it over your heart.
== [[Tabletop
* In the [[Warhammer 40,000|Imperium of Man]], a common way to salute is to form the "aquila" symbol, by crossing your hands over your chest, fingers outstretched, so that your hands form the symbolic wings and the thumbs intertwined to form the double head of the eagle.
** It's also an expression of piety roughly equivalent to crossing yourself.
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